there was a big attempt to eliminate sexual abuse in the army under the trudeau pmo. this was driven by the pmo's backwards ideology, and not by the direction of the military. in fact, there was a major purge of army people for resisting it.
conservative feminist ideology argues for the state to act as a leviathan so that women can walk around naked downtown at 4:00 am without fear of being assaulted. i exaggerate only slightly. it's less that i disagree in principle and more that i'm concerned about the unintended consequences of getting to that end point. but the military is an exception.
a state that acts as a leviathan to protect soldiers from sexual assault will be useless on the battlefield. soldiers that cannot defend themselves are useless to that state and should not be soldiers. yes, enemy forces will use rape as a tactic, and it's required to understand and react to that expectation.
canada needs to put less of an emphasis on protecting vunerable soldiers from harm and more of an emphasis on developing soldiers that can protect themselves when required. that is not necessarily gender-based, but it will require telling some women that they don't make the team and will have to accept it. that's the point of an army.
the military is not a social assistance program, but canada has treated it like one for too long, and the last pmo took disturbing steps into parody in the way it expanded that that should be reevaluated and reversed.